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Category Archives: Open Source

Open source is the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found and created content. In the Technical world, it is rather like a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge.

Does FOSS need a Boss?

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Every great country of the world is identified with its pioneering leaders who represent them. It takes a figure head to lead an endeavor to success, be it in a war, in an organization or in technology. The question people are asking now is does a free software need an enigmatic leader? Microsoft has Bill [...]

2010 – When Android & iOS became very ‘Open’

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In hindsight, 2010 has definitely been a fantastic year for Open Source; be it software, hardware, applications, etc. Leveraging the same point of view further, 2010 has also been a brilliant year for open source software projects developed for mobile applications. Black Duck Software which serves as a good barometer for several open source software [...]

An open source PHP client for SURBL; thanks to the spam attack on nsfw.in

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Couple of days back, I got an email from Amazon Abuse Desk, that botnet spammers were abusing NSFW.in. Our IP on the AWS EC2 was added to The Spamhaus Block List. Some Russian botnet spam gangs were creating automates short url at NSFW.in. Abhinay created a PHP Client for SURBL. Now, NSFW.in short-link creation just [...]

Open.org an Open Source for your Open queries. Is that all?

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A week ago, a question was raised by the latest owners of Open.org who go by the name Linux Fund organization, and we are still unsure if we have an answer to that question yet. The question was “What do we do with Open.org?” The question came up on the evening February 25th during a [...]

Linux Splashtop beats Google’s Chrome OS to the Punch

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With all the Buzz about Google’s upcoming Chrome OS — Buzz… get it… a little Google joke, but with all the buzz about Google’s upcoming release of cloud-based operating system Chrome, people aren’t taking much interest in Linux’s already released cloud OS — Splashtop. The new cloud-based OS has yet to make a big splash [...]

Open Source’s 7 Lucky Forecasts for 2011

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Well, nobody gets tired of making predictions, or at least thinking of what the future looks like. Predictions were made for several technological categories like Security, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and a more generic forecast on Information Technology as a whole. Similarly, we can never stop thinking of making forecasts for one of the most [...]

A thought, about worldwide adoption of Linux

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This is the question that lingers in the minds of many technology enthusiasts; at least for fun, they would have given it a thought – What would happen if Linux was adopted Worldwide? An ultimate ambition that the free software community has, is for Linux to be used in the mainstream industry and it has [...]

Does Open Source have in it to be Numero-Uno?

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I remember writing an article about 2 months ago, on Open Source’s revenue flow and the actual source of the payments that Open Source gets. I stated that the question of Where does Open Source get its Payment from? is one that could have multiple answers. This question of whether Open Source has it all [...]

Ubuntu’s Desktop Alternatives

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Ubuntu has always, by default, comprised of GNOME as its desktop environment. The upcoming latest model of Ubuntu (Natty Narwhal version 11.04) will now be using the 3D-enabled Unity desktop by default which will be accompanied by the Wayland graphics system. This one too is based on GNOME thereby it won’t be a problem for [...]

Broadcom’s entry charms the Linux Foundation

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During earlier days, the predicament that Linux had was related to lack of support from the big players. But things have now changed to a larger extent with Linux being associated with several big names and availing immense support from them. Like how Linux desktop users lately have been receiving Wi-Fi chipset support which was [...]